Setting Wedding Date
I wasn’t ready to hit the ground running once we got engaged—I wanted to chill out and soak in the engagement. But I also knew we didn’t want a super long engagement. After all, we’ve already been together six years. Why wait longer at this point"
But it seemed like the SECOND I told someone about the engagement, they asked “when’s the wedding"” And in my mind, that meant we were supposed to have a plan. I mean, what do I know" I’ve never done this before. So we figured once we told all the important players that we got engaged, we’d nail down a wedding date and general location and then chill out.
So one Saturday morning, between a two hour marathon play session at the dog park and a trip to the grocery store, we came up with a date-setting strategy.
Let’s be honest…the dog park is EVERYTHING.
Step 1: Nail down the list of total VIPs who must be there (parents, siblings, offspring, etc.), and find out their schedules for the next 12 months.

Step 2: Eliminate dates based on their schedules. This turned out to be a little more complicated than expected because my sister’s in med school, doing rotations, and has to be available to work on weekends. Everyone else’s schedule was a bit more open…especially after the holidays, so we narrowed things down to late winter/early spring 2017.
Then we found out  my dad’s gonna be in India for three weeks in ...